The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-26
A MISERABLE WIFE.


have to rent or sell my farm. My wife
is so miserable. j cannot carry it on
without hiring, and hiring eats up all
the profits"
looked at the speaker admiringly.
He was about fifty. but rs robust as n
man of thirty His whiskers were neat
ly trimmed, showing full, red cheek.
lie wore 4 jaunty hat and natty cuta-
way coat, and below his vest hung q silk
fob and heavy gold seal. Twas proud
of him. He was such perfect picture
of the New York gentleman from the
rural district that wanted TO imprint
his picture on my memory.
so your wife is miserableP"
Eyes, kinder droopin', with a dry
cough and no ambition. She just kind
or drags around the house, and looks
so peaked and scrawny it gives me the
blues. 1t does, swan"
Naturally weakly, wasn't sheP'
she? Oh, no. When / married
her she was the smartest girl on the
creek. She used to work for father,
and the way she made the work stand
around took my eye. She was poor
girl, and her industry got her q rich
husband"
Here he carclessly took out gold
watch, looked at the time, put it back
ana adjusted the silk fob on the front
Of his nicely-iitting trousers.
$50 she did well, getting married on
account OF her Industry"
why, of course; she was getting on
IL $3.50 n week. and she became the
mistress of n farm"
Excuse me, but low much are you
worth nowP confdentially, you know.
l am scientific man, and will never
use such facts to your injury with the
assessor"
We'll, professor, could crowd $780,
900 pretty hard"
THAT is good. How long have you
been marriedP
Thirty years next Fourth OF July.
We went down to Albany on little
teeter, and proposed the match and
Jane was willin'."
"How much do you suppose you
have made in the last thirty yearsP"
"Hum-um-lemme see. / got the
Davis farm the first ten years, then |
run in debt for the Simmons place, got
war prices for my cheese, and squared
up both places. Well, think | have
cleared up $4,000 since we spliced."
Very good, indeed. And your wife
has been great help all this timeP"
''Oh, you bet! She was a. RATHER, She
took care of her baby and the milk for
twenty cows. tell you, she made the
tinware flop. Why, we have had four
children. and she never had hired girl
over six months in that time!"
splendid; and you have cleared
$50. 600 in that timer"
Yes; easy"
Now, how much has your wife
NADER
"She. why durn it, professor she is
my wife"
"lknow it. But what has she mader
You say she was poor when you mar
ried her. Now what has she NADER"
"Why--by gum. you beat all. Why,
she is my wife and we own it al to-
gether."
'Do youp Then she can draw on
your bank account? Then she has y
horse and carriage when she wants
them? Then she has servant maid
when she wants oneP Then she rides
out for her health, and has a watch
and chain of gold as you dop Is that
SOP"
Professor, you must be crazy. No
body's wife is boss in that shape Who.
ever heard Of snch thingP
"Now look here. You say she did
well in marrying rich, and cannot see
it. If she was getting 81. SO per week
when you married her and had saved
her wages, she would have had now
5000. II she had invested il, she would
have had $4,000. Now you tell me she
is broken down and used up, and mis-
cradle, and looks so badly she makes
You sick, and she has no money. no
health, and will get probably nothing
but a Scotch granite tombstone when
she diesp'